Barber: Supreme Court Shocks Life Into Obamacare Challenge

By Matt BarberOctober 9, 2012 6:35 am

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The emperor wears no clothes. The bloom is off the rose. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Pardon the barrage of stale metaphors, but it’s difficult to put into words the utter pasting Mitt Romney put on Barack Obama last week.

Indeed, when all of CNN and MSNBC – to include Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow – hysterically admit that President Obama got smoked; he got smoked. Bad.

Liberal blogger and Obama sycophant Andrew Sullivan captured the universally shared “progressive” panic as the brutal mismatch came to a close: “How is Obama’s closing statement so f—ing sad, confused and lame? He choked. He lost. He may even have lost the election tonight.”

For those of us who have long recognized the messianic myth that is Barack Hussein Obama, the debate was especially gratifying.

The world had fallen prey to a cartoonish hoax. This media-crafted Iron Man has proven a mere mortal, a tin man, an international embarrassment.

Recall the image, so often seen, of a young Robert, head downcast in shame, standing before the judge to rationalize why, yet again, he’d screwed up magnificently. Last Wednesday was Barack’s turn.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Robert Downey Jr. – I’m glad he turned his life around. But he’s an actor. He reads his lines. He’s not Iron Man. And he’s not qualified to be president.

Neither is Barack Obama.

And so, lost with no teleprompter binky, and, thus, suffering a debate trouncing unparalleled in history, it would seem that the president’s not so good, very bad week couldn’t get worse.

It got worse.

Just two days prior, the U.S. Supreme Court revived hope – long thought dead – that Obamacare, the president’s signature achievement, might yet be ruled unconstitutional. The High Court shocked the legal community by opening its new term with an order giving the Obama Justice Department just 30 days to respond to Liberty Counsel’s petition for rehearing. Liberty Counsel filed the petition on behalf of Liberty University and two private individuals.

An appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that the Anti-Injunction Act, or AIA, barred the court from addressing the merits in Liberty Univ., Inc. v. Geithner, which challenged the individual mandate (Section 1501) and the employer insurance mandate (Section 1513) of Obamacare.

In addition to the constitutional arguments that Congress lacked authority to pass the law, the suit also raised the Free Exercise of religion claim because of the forced taxpayer funding of abortion.

You may recall that the first day of oral argument was dedicated to the AIA, the issue that Liberty University’s case placed before the High Court. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the AIA does not apply to Obamacare. Therefore, Liberty Counsel asked the Court to grant the petition (because Liberty University prevailed on the AIA claim), vacate the Court of Appeals ruling and remand (send back) the case to the Court of Appeals to consider the Free Exercise claim and the employer mandate, neither of which were decided by the High Court.

Long story short: If the Supreme Court ultimately hears the case on appeal – which is highly possible as the claims are unique – and rules that the employer mandate and Free Exercise claims are legit, Obamacare dies on the vine. It’s effectively overturned. It’s like a shiny new Chevy Volt without the exploding battery. It goes nowhere fast and is towed to the junkyard of really, really stupid ideas.

This means, among other things, that people who value human life won’t be made complicit in abortion homicide on the taxpayer dime.

“Obamacare is the biggest funding of abortion in American history,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University School of Law. “Under the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, Obamacare will, for the first time, require employers and individuals to directly fund abortion.

“This abortion mandate collides with religious freedom and the rights of conscience. I am very pleased with the Court’s decision today,” concluded Staver.

During the debate, Mitt Romney took Obama to task over Obamacare: “I just don’t know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the – at the kitchen table and spent his energy and passion for two years fighting for Obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the American people. It has killed jobs.”

Now his invincibility has proven to be only smoke and mirrors used by the News Media. He like Goliath can be defeated and was indeed soundly defeated before about fifty million viewers. His sugar coated armor has melted under the hot sun of truth and the light of it has penetrated to his very soul exposing his many weaknesses. The mighty has fallen…long live the king!

Now for phase two. First Paul Ryan will have to play hard and fast with Joe ‘Where Am I’ Biden. He has to be well prepared because Joe will go mean and vicious, but that is good if you can handle it and turn it on him.

Then Mitt is going to have to point out how BHO was derelict in his duties. He spent more time golfing, vacationing, and campaigning and had no time for such unimportant things like intelligence briefings. Now he claims his men in the field did not have the proper intelligence for him about the situation. Well the only lack of intelligence was right there between his ears. He failed to attend the briefings!

Mitt needs to point out how he snubbed the Israeli Prime Minister. Then point out how the ambassador must have felt as they drug him through the streets and sodomized him, brutalized him before killing him. Many others also died as well, and it was ALL YOUR FAULT Mr. President! You can point your fingers as usual this way and that way, but everyone knows it is all your fault. You have failed to do your duty. You don’t get an INCOMPLETE, you get a FAILURE, and you do not pass go.

You will be officially a One Term President like you said you would be. You said you would cut the debt in half by the end of your first four years in office. Well you didn’t cut it in half, you increased it by about sixty per cent!

You are a One Term President. End of debate. End of discussion….what more is there to say? Go ahead and resign and do the world, and this country, a huge favor…save yourself the embarrassment of getting clobbered at the polls…just apologize to everyone and quit!

I do not want Obama to resign! Never! I want him to lose the election. If he resigns, Biden will become President, and some fool will feel sorry him, or want to give him a chance and vote for him! No, Obama and his ilk must be voted out of office by a huge majority of liberty loving Americans.

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Comment by lfowler1 October 9, 2012 @ 4:45 pm

I just can’t understand why Obama will graciously allow so many Unions and other favorites to not have the taxed mandate. Then turn around and insist that those of a religious bent and opposed must support what is against their conscience. Shows what an idiot he is.